Mother, Nurse and Infant: A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.Sackett, S. P.
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Mother, Nurse and Infant: A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.
Sackett, S. P.
Infants -- Care; Materia medica; Obstetrics -- Popular works; Women -- Health and hygiene
THORAX. The cavity containing the lungs and heart; the chest.
THROMBOSIS. The obstruction of a blood vessel by a small coagulum.
TINCTURE. Spirit containing medical substances in solution.
TONE. A proper state of firmness.
TONIC. A strengthening medicine.
TOPICAL. Local; applied to a particular part.
TORMINA. Twisting, griping pains in the bowels.
TOURNIQUET. An instrument for ligating a limb and making pressure on
an artery.
TRANSUDATION. Passing of a fluid through the pores or interstices.
TRAUMATIC. Resulting from a wound or lesion.
TRISMUS. Lockjaw; tetanus.
TRITURATION. The act of reducing to a fine powder.
TUBER ISCHII. The tuberosities of the ischium.
TUMEFACTION. Enlargement; swelling.
TYMPANITIS. Flatulent distention of the belly.
TYPE. Peculiar form of disease.
ULCER. A sore, discharging pus.
UMBILICUS. The naval.
UNCTUOUS. Fat; oily.
UREA. A nitrogenous constituent of the urine.
URETHRA. The canal that conveys the urine from the bladder out of the
body.
URINOMETER. An instrument for obtaining the specific gravity of urine.
UTERO GESTATION. Pregnancy.
UTERUS. The womb.
VARICOSE VEINS. Veins that are morbidly enlarged.
VASCULAR. Full of blood vessels.
VEIN. A vessel carrying blood to the heart.
VENA CAVA. A name given to two great veins of the body.
VERTEBRA. A joint of the spinal column, or back bone.
VERTIGO. Dizziness.
VESICANTS. Blistering agents.
VESICLE. An elevation of the cuticle containing serum; a bladder.
VESSEL. A tube or canal for fluids.
VIABLE. Sufficiently developed to be capable of living.
VIBRIONES. A family of minute organisms.
VICARIOUS. Taking the place or office of another.
VILLI. Minute papillary elevations on a membrane.
VIRUS. Organic poison; the contagion of disease.
VISCERA. The contents of the abdomen, thorax, or head.
VISUOS. One of the internal organs.
VITAL. Pertaining to life.
VIVISECTION. The dissection of an animal while alive.
VOLATILE. Capable of easily evaporating.
VULVA. The labia externum.
WHITLOW. A felon; an inflammation near the bone at the end of the
finger.
WISDOM TEETH. The last of the molars to appear.
WOUND. A hurt or breach of the skin and flesh of an animal.
ZYMOTIC. Caused by something that acts as a ferment.
INDEX.
Abbreviations used in writing prescriptions, 330.
Abdomen, pain in, 23.
Ablutions after labor, 44.
—— in pregnancy, 20.
—— of the sick, 298.
Abortion, may be accidental, 120.
—— may become a habit, 120.
—— premonitory symptoms, 120.
—— prevention of, 122.
—— in the beginning of pregnancy, 120.
—— treatment of, 123.
Abscess, 166, 360.
Accidents, 279.
Accidents of labor, 168.
Acidity of the stomach, 25, 336.
Acetabulum, 57.
Acetate of copper, poisoning by, 285.
—— lead, 287.
Acid poisons, 284, 287.
Aconite, 265, 283.
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